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Council Member Robert Holden Explains His Vote Against Overriding the Mayor's Vetoes
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Council Member Robert Holden expresses his opposition to overriding the mayor's vetoes.
He voices concerns over the additional reporting burdens placed on police officers, suggesting that such measures could detrimentally affect police response times and public safety.
Holden also discusses the semantic confusion around 'solitary confinement' versus 'punitive segregation,' emphasizing a federal monitor's support for the latter as a necessary tool for the safety of correction officers.
Speaker 2
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Holden,
Speaker 27
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permission to explain.
Speaker 1
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Permission granted.
Speaker 27
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I'm gonna go know on the override and just gonna go over a couple of things.
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First, we're asking fewer police officers to do a lot more.
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That makes no sense.
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That's no sense whatsoever.
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And the most mundane stops, we're asking them to report on.
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It's not even a stop, first of all, level 1.
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It's an encounter, and they're asking questions.
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Did you witness this?
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Did you see something?
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Did you see that person harass that person?
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That that's what we're asking.
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So we want reports if the police officer stopped ten people or at least questioned ten people, asked them, did they witness something and all ten say no, they still have to report.
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That makes no sense whatsoever.
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That'll delay critical response.
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Stands the reason.
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If police are filling out whether you wanna call it paperwork or digital work, they're still going to have to answer questions up to.
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And on the level 1, up to 11 questions, and some could be complicated like what happened.
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You have to describe what happened.
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So this, again, is going to tie the hands of the police officers, which is the intent here.
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This is the intent to tie the officer's hands even further.
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Again, critical response seconds count.
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You will see the critical response time go up, which will cost lives.
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You will see the response time in general go up.
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People will complain.
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Your constituents will complain.
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They don't care about mundane level 1 encounters, they care about critical response.
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But that's key here.
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And on the punitive seg, by the way, it's it's not called solitary confinement.
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We haven't had that in the city even New York for 10 years.
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But everybody says that, but nobody listens.
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It's it's if it's punitive seg, it it's a reason.
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That's why the federal monitor disagrees with the body here saying, you know what?
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We need it as a tool to keep our correction officers safe.
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So again, let's start looking at common sense bills And really, we're shooting ourselves in the foot on this on the 586 because that will again cause lives you'll see in critical response.